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To make mangoes of melons: Using the evolution of form and senses to understand historical cookbooks
Historical recipes: technical manuals? As a PhD student at the University of Central Florida’s Texts and Technology program, I have primarily been studying historical and modern cookbooks and recipes as…
Circuit breakers, PPEs, and Veronica buckets: World Englishes and Covid-19
By analyzing our multibillion-word monitor corpus of English, OED editors can observe how English speakers across the globe are changing the lexicon as a response to the same social pressures resulting from the coronavirus pandemic.
Caucus: a cant word of the Americans in the March 2019 update
There are perhaps few political terms more idiosyncratically American than caucus. In 1818, the English writer Sydney Smith referred to it as ‘the cant word of the Americans for the…
Meet the Editors: Katherine Connor Martin
Meet Katherine Connor Martin, former Head of US Dictionaries (now Head of Product for Oxford Languages), and part of the team tasked with ensuring that the Oxford English Dictionary keeps up…
Americanisms (and ‘America Firsters’) in the OED
When the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary were putting the finishing touches on the first edition ninety years ago, they knew their work was in no way ‘complete’. The…
Release notes: parenting words
The last ten years have been particularly fruitful ones for the Oxford English Dictionary. Over that time, staff have celebrated the birth of twenty-five babies, and a lexicographer bringing a…
Release notes: Beltway
The lexicographical byways of the political highway If you are British then you quite possibly have not heard of a beltway before; if you are American you might read or hear the…
Release notes: Bama and shaka: how two local words went global
Words follow many different paths on their way to being entered into the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Sometimes, the journey is rapid and straightforward, with every step well documented. This…
New words notes September 2014
The September quarterly update is devoted to the revision of several core words in the vocabulary of English, including high and low, fact, case, day, week, group, and company. The…
Pigskin and gridiron: notes on the American Football lexicon
As yet another January creeps to a close, American football fans across the globe are counting down the days in anticipation of the ultimate game of the season, the National…
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